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By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO (Reuters) – As Sudan collapsed into fighting last week that has trapped civilians in their city neighbourhoods, cutting off access to water, food and healthcare, community groups, websites and apps have sprung up to mobilise medical help and find basic supplies. The violent power struggle between the heads of the …

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By Humphrey Malalo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Kenyan police on Friday began exhuming remains from more than a dozen suspected graves in the east of the country thought to contain followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death. On Thursday, homicide detectives marked out patches of earth …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chaired a meeting of the government’s emergency response committee on Saturday to discuss the situation in Sudan, with defence minister Ben Wallace among those attending. Sudan’s army said on Saturday it had agreed to help evacuate foreign nationals, as gunfire and air strikes echoed across Khartoum despite …

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By Djaffar Al Katanty GOMA (Reuters) – Young Muslims go from tent to tent at a camp for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, their arms laden with bags of rice, beans and fish, gifts to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan. More than a million people have fled fighting …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government said its defence ministry was engaged in “prudent planning” related to the current conflict in Sudan, after a report that British troops and aircraft had been put on standby to evacuate embassy staff and civilians if needed. Sudan’s army earlier said it had agreed to a three-day truce starting on …

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By Mariam Rizk and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -The Eid al-Fitr holiday is usually a time for many residents of Sudan’s capital to visit relatives outside the city, which falls quiet. This year, those who can are making a frantic escape from Khartoum, driven out by war. As the three-day Muslim holiday started on Friday …

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